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Epigraphic evidence of the Book of Mormon or the lack thereof
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Are you saying because of all the destruction, we should be finding stuff, or we shouldn't be finding stuff?
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There's a 1000-year gap from Moroni to Columbus. Much can change during a millennium, for example scientists have examined what would happen if people suddenly disappeared, and how quickly nature would consume man-made cities. Have you seen this series? Now let us suppose that in America's 1000-year gap, God gave nature a head start through a combination of man pillaging every person, place and thing via war, and God "destroying" other communities via natural disasters.
God has said that he will have a faithful people, and you all know Hebrews 11:1. |
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Faith is substance and evidence. Do you believe things for no reason? Fortunately, there is solid evidence the BOM is an authentic Ancient Near Eastern record even though we haven't found anything in America.
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But the BOM doesn't claim to be an ancient near eastern record.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "solid evidence." If that were the case, then I think significant numbers of neutral experts would be able say exact that: "there is solid evidence." And I don't think that is the case. I have taken a recent interest in epigraphy after watching a documentary about the epigraphy of the Mayan hieroglyphics. |
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Mike's statement is more accurate than Chino's.
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I don't recall if it was Brigham Young or whom, who essentially said that even if the golden plates were on display, people still would doubt their authenticity because they couldn't read them. The point is, what kind of hard evidence does a person need to find in the Americas, in order to "believe?" A preserved title of liberty, neatly stored in a clay jar in a cave?
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Assuming the golden plates existed, if they were of Semitic origin, there is a decent chance some sense could be made out of them.
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